tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988Sun, 07 Jun 2026 13:24:12 +0000PoliticsRepublishedCommunityHuman RightsGenericScoopCrimeBusinessGuest FeatureMediaConsumer RightsTechnologyEnvironmentInternetHealthWomenSpecial FeatureSpecial ReportCinemaRussian RouletteAviationGaza BlockadeEuropeMarketingSome perspectives on the events that are shaping the world today.http://www.adityabasu.com/noreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)Blogger175125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-4621907456935110430Fri, 03 Oct 2025 16:56:00 +00002025-10-04T21:32:38.076+05:30BusinessSpecial Report The Thought Collective - Special Report The New Great Game: A Quick Intro to China's Latin American AdventureImagine, if you will, a global chessboard where the pieces are no longer arrayed in their familiar Cold War formations. The old powers, perhaps too comfortable in their long-held positions, are now finding their influence challenged, not in some distant, unfamiliar theater, but in whathttp://www.adityabasu.com/2025/10/chinas-grand-play-reshaping-latin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-6597698092989062155Sat, 27 Sep 2025 08:02:00 +00002025-09-27T14:25:45.235+05:30PoliticsSpecial Report The Thought Collective - Special Report Remember when US-Israel relations felt like an unbreakable bond, etched in stone, almost preordained by history and shared values? It was an alliance often described with reverence, a unique partnership forged in the crucible of post-war global shifts. Yet, as one observes the unfolding complexities of geopolitical currents and evolving societal http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/09/us-israel-relations-special.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-8580348590516839138Fri, 26 Sep 2025 09:37:00 +00002025-09-26T17:22:16.267+05:30PoliticsSpecial Report The Thought Collective - Special Report Not Your Grandparents' Cold War, But Still ChillyRemember, if you will, the heady days when globalization was hailed as the undisputed, inexorable force unifying our world? The prevailing wisdom then posited an ever-flattening planet, where interconnected economies would naturally diffuse geopolitical tensions, fostering mutual dependence and, http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/09/the-great-unraveling-is-us-china.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-7009862819764687652Thu, 25 Sep 2025 06:55:00 +00002025-09-28T09:56:08.585+05:30EuropeSpecial Report The Thought Collective - Special Report Europe's Grand DilemmaOne might observe the European Union today not merely as a political and economic bloc, but as an entity perpetually engaged in a perilous tightrope walk. A self-proclaimed beacon of multilateralism and soft power, it finds itself suspended precariously above a complex knot of foreign policy challenges, each exerting its http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/09/navigating-storm-can-eu-chart-its-own.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-5848295162738309824Mon, 11 Aug 2025 11:07:00 +00002025-08-11T16:37:39.201+05:30Gaza BlockadeSpecial ReportThe Thought Collective - Special Report The Architecture of a Miscalculation In the late summer of 2020, a powerful new diplomatic narrative took hold, promising to reshape the contours of the modern Middle East. The signing of the Abraham Accords, brokered by the United States, was presented as the dawn of a new era, one built on shared interests in economic prosperity and regional http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/08/the-normalization-paradox-how-abraham.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-1680104694844325314Sat, 26 Jul 2025 06:04:00 +00002025-07-26T11:34:20.061+05:30Gaza BlockadeSpecial ReportThe Thought Collective - Special Report The Unraveling of an Order The crisis that has engulfed the Gaza Strip is more than a regional conflict; it is a stark symptom of a failing global system. The nearly two-decade-long encirclement, punctuated by devastating military assaults, has culminated in a catastrophe that lays bare the profound fissures in the post-World War II international http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/07/the-gaza-blockade-geopolitical.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-6833441518841568120Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:54:00 +00002025-07-23T10:06:59.442+05:30Russian RouletteSpecial ReportThe Thought Collective - Special Report The vast plains and coastal strips of eastern and southern Ukraine have become the blood-soaked epicenter of Europe's largest and most brutal land war since 1945. The conflict, which exploded onto the world stage with Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022, is a catastrophic struggle for control over the regions of Crimea, Donetsk, Luhansk, Zaporizhzhia, http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/07/contested-ground-history-strategy-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-4736360085447232915Sun, 27 Apr 2025 17:05:00 +00002025-04-28T12:34:59.314+05:30Special ReportThe Thought Collective - Special Report  The idyllic meadows of Baisaran Valley, near Pahalgam in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, became a scene of horror on April 22, 2025. Gunmen, clad in military-style uniforms and armed with M4 carbines and AK-47s, ambushed tourists enjoying the scenery. Methodically checking identities and religions, they opened fire, massacring at least 26 http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/04/playing-with-fire-pakistans-enduring.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-90820741285123121Sun, 20 Apr 2025 07:35:00 +00002025-07-23T10:07:38.255+05:30Russian RouletteSpecial ReportThe Thought Collective - Special Report  The full-scale invasion of Ukraine by Russia in February 2022 represents more than a brutal military confrontation; it marks a profound geopolitical rupture, unleashing immense human suffering and triggering economic shockwaves felt across the globe. Beyond the immediate tragedy, the conflict has acted as a powerful, if grim, catalyst for the globalhttp://www.adityabasu.com/2025/04/an-unbalanced-ledger-real-cost-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-1772920193856780496Thu, 10 Apr 2025 02:59:00 +00002025-07-23T10:08:09.308+05:30Russian RouletteSpecial ReportThe Thought Collective - Special Report What began in February 2022 as a conflict largely perceived through the lens of a localized, bilateral dispute between Russia and Ukraine has inexorably drawn in a complex web of international actors. More than two years on, the war's character has been fundamentally reshaped, its ripples extending far beyond Eastern Europe to touch nearly every corner http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/04/global-shadows-foreign-entanglement-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-7943337845321453236Sat, 29 Mar 2025 05:29:00 +00002025-04-20T18:36:59.808+05:30CommunityPoliticsRepublishedScoop By Megan O’Matz, ProPublica  Ten years ago, when Wisconsin lawmakers approved a bill to allow unlimited spending in state elections, only one Republican voted no. “I just thought big money was an evil, a curse on our politics,” former state Sen. Robert Cowles said recently of his 2015 decision to buck his party. As Wisconsin voters head to the polls next week to choose a new state http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/03/how-billionaires-are-shaping-most.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-1280750352930127766Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:49:00 +00002025-04-20T18:37:35.097+05:30PoliticsRepublishedScoopBy Natasha Lindstaedt, University of EssexAfter Donald Trump’s “very good and productive” phone call with Vladimir Putin earlier this week, all eyes were on his subsequent call with Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky. Would it, as it did when they last met in the flesh on February 28 at the White House, descend into disastrous acrimony? Or would Zelensky manage to engage with the US http://www.adityabasu.com/2025/03/how-zelensky-rebuilt-his-relationship.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-3005266375134799320Tue, 25 Jul 2023 08:09:00 +00002025-04-20T18:38:13.365+05:30BusinessPoliticsTechnologyBy Mudit Jain, edited by Naveed Ahsan, Fair ObserverBetween April 2022 and March 2023, India's trade deficit in manufacturing exceeded $250 billion. This serves as a stark reminder of the challenges and lack of competitiveness of Indian manufacturing. The roots of this decline began in the 1990s and a lack of comprehensive reforms has limited the sector's ability to compete effectively on a http://www.adityabasu.com/2023/07/decoding-challenges-hampering-growth-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-3327927665008853834Tue, 18 Jul 2023 07:44:00 +00002025-04-20T18:38:36.748+05:30BusinessCommunityConsumer RightsRepublishedBy Sam Pizzigati, Editor, Inequality.orgIf we take on our rich, we can recreate that success.Urban Housing - Picture from PixabayAmazing things can happen when societies realize they don’t need an awesomely affluent.What sort of amazing things? Take what happened in the United States between 1940 and 1960, as economists William Collins and Gregory Niemesh do in a just-published research paper on http://www.adityabasu.com/2023/07/the-two-decades-that-created-worlds.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-2745194422042543447Mon, 03 Jul 2023 14:21:00 +00002025-04-20T18:39:28.680+05:30MediaSpecial FeatureWomen A Magical Journey Around the WorldThe Chronicles of Lili - Volume 1Welcome to a world of imagination, excitement, and thrilling adventures! We are thrilled to present to you "The Chronicles of Lili - Vol 1," a delightful children's book that will take young readers on a journey they will never forget. Join Lili, Bruno, Inge, and Mr. Squeak as they embark on captivating escapades around the http://www.adityabasu.com/2023/07/the-chronicles-of-lili-must-read.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-2401003811765505916Fri, 27 May 2022 10:00:00 +00002025-04-20T18:40:06.173+05:30CommunityCrimeHuman RightsRepublishedBy Arash Javanbakht, Wayne State UniversityThe deadly shooting of at least 19 children and two adults in Texas on May 24, 2022, is the latest in an ever-growing list of national tragedies, leaving families and friends of the victims gripped with grief, anguish and despair. The latest mass shooting, at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, has plunged the country into yethttp://www.adityabasu.com/2022/05/the-collective-psychological-effect-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-4059765074192537126Sat, 11 Jan 2020 11:08:00 +00002025-03-29T12:57:39.735+05:30PoliticsRepublishedScoop By Stuart Littlewood,  Columnist, American Herald Tribune Mossadeq’s great sin: he “broke the chains of slavery and servitude to colonial interests”. US and Britain are still smarting. Nobody saw that coming. Trump ordering Soleimani’s execution, I mean. Nobody thought even he was quite so stupid. It follows his last year’s caper when the "cocked and loaded" drama-queen http://www.adityabasu.com/2020/01/reason-why-west-hates-iran-so-much.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-8046027788402922288Fri, 10 Jan 2020 10:16:00 +00002025-03-29T12:58:04.893+05:30BusinessGenericPoliticsRepublishedScoop By Sarah Anderson, Global Economy Project, Institute for Policy Studies As long as the top executives of our privatized war economy can reap unlimited rewards, the profit motive for war in Iran — or anywhere — will persist. Image by dayamay from Pixabay CEOs of major U.S. military contractors stand to reap huge windfalls from the escalation of conflict with Iran. This was evident in the http://www.adityabasu.com/2020/01/us-military-contractor-ceos-making.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-4594231355757767949Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:10:00 +00002025-03-29T12:59:54.708+05:30GenericPoliticsRepublishedScoop By Abbas Farasoo, Dekin University Eliminating Qassem Soleimani significantly raises the risk of a direct confrontation between the US and Iran. USS Wisconsin (Pic: Alan Wilson - Flickr, CC 2) The assassination of the commander of Iran’s Quds Force, Major General Qassem Soleimani, by the United States on January 3, along with his right-hand man in Iraq, Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis, was a http://www.adityabasu.com/2020/01/are-we-looking-at-another-gulf-war.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-7773849456814330666Wed, 18 Dec 2019 09:13:00 +00002025-04-21T08:25:27.976+05:30Human RightsPoliticsScoop By Haimanti Roy, University of Dayton  The Indian government will soon ask its 870 million voting-age citizens for documentation that they are legal citizens with ancestral ties to India. All voting-age Indians may soon be asked to submit government-issued ID to prove citizenship. That may be a challenge for women, religious minorities and members of http://www.adityabasu.com/2019/12/nrc-mass-weaponization-of-paper-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-1481803563805690560Tue, 13 Aug 2019 13:31:00 +00002025-04-21T08:26:55.020+05:30Human RightsPoliticsRepublishedScoop By Ayesha Ray, Department of Political Science, King's College In a stunningly dangerous, undemocratic and secretive move, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his government repealed Articles 370 and 35a of the Indian Constitution using a presidential order. The government failed to involve all stakeholders in the restive state of Jammu and Kashmir before making its move. Indian http://www.adityabasu.com/2019/08/kashmir-great-indian-blunder-what.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-4083593514259874994Sat, 27 Apr 2019 15:25:00 +00002025-04-21T08:27:43.179+05:30PoliticsRepublishedScoop By Greg Barton, Deakin University In the wake of any tragedy, it should be enough to grieve and stand in solidarity with those who mourn. With a massive toll – about 250 dead, according to revised government figures – it feels disrespectful to the people of Sri Lanka to be dissecting what went wrong even as the dead are being buried. Image by Dhamma Medicine from Pixabay But the http://www.adityabasu.com/2019/04/decoding-sri-lanka-massacre-why-it.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-5232867318054414761Mon, 25 Mar 2019 17:47:00 +00002025-04-21T08:28:16.136+05:30BusinessGenericMarketingMediaScoop By Ian Chipman, Knowable Magazine Imagine yourself in your local supermarket, doing your usual grocery run. In aisle after aisle, countless brands vie for your dollars and attention. Colgate, Crest and Aquafresh toothpaste. Smucker’s, Welch’s and Dickinson’s strawberry jam. Coke, Pepsi and RC Cola soft drinks. Like most consumers, you probably prefer one over another in dozens of http://www.adityabasu.com/2019/03/how-brands-influence-our-consumption.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-1043994867026767079Sat, 09 Mar 2019 06:03:00 +00002025-04-21T08:28:33.607+05:30CommunityCrimeHuman RightsRepublishedWomen By Payal Mohta, Open Democracy Priyanka Dubey, an award-winning journalist, spent six years researching and documenting India’s unreported rape cases for her new book, “No Nation For Women – Reporting On Rape From India, The World’s Largest Democracy”. Released in India in December, the book is out in the UK and US as well, from 8 March, International Women’s Day. It includes eye-opening,http://www.adityabasu.com/2019/03/documenting-indias-unreported-rape.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-302062890660868988.post-7815525788112416439Tue, 05 Mar 2019 14:09:00 +00002025-04-21T08:28:46.999+05:30PoliticsRepublishedScoop By Bill Law, Gulf House With both the US and Russia withdrawing from the INF, a nuclear stand-off in the Gulf could be closer than you think. One of the many challenges of covering the impact of Donald Trump’s presidency on global affairs is that, in the constant churn of stories generated by his Twitter outbursts and the abrupt policy decisions he makes, really important stories http://www.adityabasu.com/2019/03/are-we-looking-at-nuclear-arms-race-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Aditya Basu)